My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more. Jim Hamilton More Quotes by Jim Hamilton More Quotes From Jim Hamilton Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward. Jim Hamilton draws mystery memories My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic. Jim Hamilton dad brother father I was running from God, but I didn't know I was running from God. I didn't know that. Jim Hamilton knows running I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out. Jim Hamilton knowing-god plans imagine I ended up getting on my knees right there in my bedroom. I didn't have a tract that had, you know, 'here's how you pray to receive Christ' on it. I had never seen a tract in my life. I had never read a Bible. Jim Hamilton knees praying christ I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life. Jim Hamilton needed knows I was trying my best not to drink. I'd go a day or two, and I just couldn't stand it. It kinda got around that 'Hamilton got religion.' So for about a year, it was the most miserable time of my life because I was secretly still drinking. One night I came home, after about a year of this, and I woke up the next day and the desire was gone. Jim Hamilton drinking home night I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism. Jim Hamilton next-day prayer christian I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim. Jim Hamilton clue transformed different There are no written reports of the vets, the reports are made to the nominee orally. I don't want any written record. Jim Hamilton